
CAPTCHAs
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
The History of CAPTCHA
In the year 2000, a team at Carnegie Mellon led by engineer and researcher Luis Von An built the first version of CAPTCHA. This technology didn't really have a forerunner before it was built. The first CAPTCHA's were solved correctly by humans 97% of the time. You have a new name for this every week. Send them through Discord or to sifpot at gmail.com.
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